"Empty" events in iPhoto after Time Machine restore. Am I out of luck?
The hard drive in my 2007 iMac died a few weeks ago. I replaced it with a new HD, reinstalled the OS, and allowed Time Machine to restore everything. It reported a "successful" restoration. I just noticed that there are a hundred or more missing photos and videos in iPhoto. A chunk of November/December 2013 is gone. No thumbnails... just gray squares indicating that there was a video or a photo that isn't there now.
I tried repairing the library etc. with the CMD-Opt while launching iPhoto to no avail. Adding further frustration, after the restore Time Machine appears to have started over with a complete fresh backup of the new hard drive, dumping all of the incremental backups from the old drive.
Is there anything else I can do or should I just consider all of that content "gone"? My first child was born last summer and it would really suck to have lost that stuff... I suspect there were pics and videos of him with my late mother in there. 😟